22 May 2017

New Story: Security forces foil terror bid in southwestern Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, May 20 (Xinhua) -- Pakistani security forces foiled a terror bid by confiscating heavy cache of weapons in Quetta, the provincial capital of the country's southwest Balochistan Province, the military said.

The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), Pakistan army's media wing, said in a statement that the security forces raided a hidden weapons depot on Saturday and seized a huge quantity of a variety of weapons in the outskirts of Quetta.

The statement said that the weapons, including locally-made improvised explosive devices, a rocket-propelled grenade launcher, hundreds of hand-grenades and other weapons and ammunitions.